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fan delay by group...

I'm trying to work out the best way to fan delay times across a system of Nemos focused in a grid across a giant projection surface.

Lights are focused as follows:

     X X X X      (4 units)

X X X X X X X (7 units)

X X X X X X X (7 units)

     X X X X      (4 units)

I have individual control of each fixture (X).

I'd like to be able to do color wipes top to bottom/left to right (etc...), but I want each row (or column) to delay at the same time.

i.e. if I do

channel [1 thru 22] [color] [delay] [0 thru 4], the delay time will fan evenly between all channels, and the color wipe will "snake" down the wall per selection order

but i want:

channel 1-4, delay 0
channel 5-11, delay 1
etc...
*but exact time will vary per cue

obviously i can enter this manually one row at a time, but this is a pretty time consuming action to repeat over a couple hundred cues (all of which will end up with different speeds for the color wipes/intensity wipes/gobo wipes, etc...)...

I'm thinking a macro with a bunch of "wait for input" breaks, but then i have to figure out the math all by myself

Any suggestions on an efficient way to do this (hopefully without having do do the math manually each time)

Thank you!

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    One would think that applying a fan across a group would work but alas it does not.  Seems like a reasonable feature request.   [Group] 1 through 4 [Fan] [Delay] 1 through 10 would fan across groups of channels not individual channels.  Though I can see where an issue would arise in cases where the same channel was in 2 different groups...

    Peace,

    Ed

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    Ed- you're right, that would be sweet, perhaps some sort of toggle state for fan by channel vs fan by group? 

    Among other things, I've always wanted to see a someone do referable groups too...
    Right now, a group is basically a quick way of selecting multiple channels, but once those channels are recorded into a cue, the reference to the group goes away.

    I  want a function that remembers the whole group-
    so if group 1 is channels 1-5, and i record cue 1, channels 1-5 show up in cue 1

    but if i have a referable group, and i add channels 6-10 to group 1, then channels 6-10 show up in cue 1 too

    and more so... if group 1/channels 1-5 have a delay/fan of 0-5, and i add in channels 6-10 in group 1, then all of a sudden the delay/fans 0-5 across channel 1-10.

    or if the selection order of group 1 is 1,2,3,4,5

    and i change the selection order to

    2,5,3,1,4

    the fan redistributes to the new selection order.

     

     

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    Ed- you're right, that would be sweet, perhaps some sort of toggle state for fan by channel vs fan by group? 

    Among other things, I've always wanted to see a someone do referable groups too...
    Right now, a group is basically a quick way of selecting multiple channels, but once those channels are recorded into a cue, the reference to the group goes away.

    I  want a function that remembers the whole group-
    so if group 1 is channels 1-5, and i record cue 1, channels 1-5 show up in cue 1

    but if i have a referable group, and i add channels 6-10 to group 1, then channels 6-10 show up in cue 1 too

    and more so... if group 1/channels 1-5 have a delay/fan of 0-5, and i add in channels 6-10 in group 1, then all of a sudden the delay/fans 0-5 across channel 1-10.

    or if the selection order of group 1 is 1,2,3,4,5

    and i change the selection order to

    2,5,3,1,4

    the fan redistributes to the new selection order.

     

     

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